Painting our second - and last - church roof

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I wrote recently about painting the roof of a small country church in Western Australia. You can catch up here: https://www.mylot.com/post/3312580/wandering-back-to-wandering A few months after that time, we were approached to do another roof in the same parish but in a slightly bigger town. The plan was that Vince would be doing the work on the roof and I’d organise the boys to paint the woodwork round the doors and windows. We hadn’t bargained on the two factions within the church community who hadn’t agreed yet on the colours so before starting, there was a bit of argy-bargy about the colours we'd been told to use. So that left a bit of a sour taste in our mouths, not that any of it was our concern really. We understand that, after all our hard work, the woodwork was repainted one early morning by those who didn’t like the new colour. I wonder what God thought of his parishioners at that point. There was one funny part to the whole exercise. The roof was tiled so it only needed power-washing. However, the steeple needed to be painted and this involved extending the cherry picker to its maximum length. What’s more, the large rector, who had been an engineer in a previous life, was very keen to be involved and insisted on going up in the cherry-picker with Vince. The weight of the two of them caused the bucket to ‘bounce’ ever so slightly, and I could see Vince turning a pale shade of green. Not being afraid of heights, I found it a bit funny. The photo is of another small country church which has found a new life as a reception centre. We organised a concert there for the new owner and he has since done a lot more work on it.